News and Particulars:

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SCHEDULE HAS
CHANGED FROM FALL TO WINTER QUARTER.

The purpose of our program is to identify and contextualize the issues
within the framework of sovereignty. The issues of domination and
resistance have and continue to mean that sovereignty is experienced
locally and played out on the world stage. We might become aware of
sovereignty issues when the guns are blazing, buildings collapsing,
and people dying. At other times, it is when people participate in
elections, speeches are made, treaties signed, councils (elected or
hand-picked) are convened, environmental damage is permitted, or an
international tribunal tries a corrupt dictator. And on yet other
occasions, sovereignty manifests in a community's struggle for
political autonomy as well as control over their resources. Not
surprisingly, awareness of sovereignty will take us through different
disciplines (humanities, Native American studies, history, cultural
studies, political science, and law, among others).

Fall quarter we will begin by focusing on the politics of discovery,
and the resulting effect it had on other societies. We will then
consider how Indigenous communities in North America view sovereignty.
Finally, we will examine the new American imperialism and its
implications for culture and identity. We will prepare students for
Winter quarter, when we will more closely deconstruct the challenges
to and strengthening of sovereignty by nationalist indigenous rights
movements, global efforts at decolonization, and through art and
literature.

All Program and Seminar Schedule:

Tuesday

9am-11:00am

All-Program Meeting

Longhouse 1007 & 1007a

1-3pm

Ackley Seminar

Library 4004

Pavel Seminar

Library 1600

Shariff Seminar

Lab I 1051

Wednesday

10am-1pm

All Program Meeting

Library 1612

Thursday

10am-12:00pm

All-Program Lecture

Longhouse 1007 & 1007a

1-3pm

Reserved for All-Program

Lecture Hall 4

Texts*:

(all books are on reserve at the library)

Hogan, Linda. The Woman Who Watches over the World: a Native Memoir.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002